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As America’s largest, most powerful grassroots environmental advocacy organization, the Sierra Club will play a definitive role in challenging the influence and power of oil companies and moving America beyond oil. The Delaware Chapter supports this campain by challenging dirty oil projects and subisdies for the oil industry, while promoting clean transportiation options.

We thank our 14 elected officials and 32 conservation, social justice, and fishing groups for joining us to ask the State of Delaware to proceed with a Best Technology Available determination for the Delaware City Refinery's Cooling Water Intake Structure.

Delaware City Refinery 13 years expired Clean Water Act Permit finally gets a new draft permit and public hearing.

WHAT: Protest outside the hearing with fish costumes & signs between 5-6pm (snacks provided). Attend the hearing starting at 6pm and submit public comments calling for a closed-loop cooling system to eliminate fish kills.

Join us at the Sheraton Atlantic City Hotel Annapolis on Weds. March 18th for a public meeting on proposed offshore drilling off our coast.

We need supporters there to stand up for marine wildlife and our coastal waters threatened by the prospect of these dual threats. During the meeting you will have an opportunity to submit comments on the proposed drilling -- this is your chance to be heard.

UPDATE: The oral argument originally scheduled for January 23 has been rescheduled to Thursday, Feb 12 at 1:30 pm. The judge is hearing a murder trial and so all parties thought a reschedule would be better.

The Delaware Chapter of the Sierra Club is carefully reviewing the terms and conditions in the draft NPDES permit for the Delaware City Refinery and the associated Settlement Agreement for its impact on Delaware River fish. Please join us at the public hearing on the draft permit on March 24th at 6pm in New Castle.

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About the Tar Sands

The Sierra Club Beyond Oil Campaign will block the most dangerous tar sands oil projects (Keystone XL, Enbridge Gateway, Trailbreaker pipelines) and revoke the oil industry's license to operate above the law and interfere with our transition to a clean energy future.

Melina Laboucan-Massimo, a member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation and a Climate and Energy Campaigner with Greenpeace, describes the impact of oil and gas developments and the recent oil spill in the traditional territory of the Lubicon Cree in northern Alberta.

Being the Change We Hope For: Stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline by Yiming Roberts, places Alberta tar sands development and the Keystone XL Pipeline within their environmental, climate and social justice contexts.